RockPaperShotgun has published an article about the 50 favourite strategy games of all time, as voted by the community. As a community vote, there was no collapsing of a series to a single title, so Civ made it into the list with 5 titles (1, 2, 4, 5, 6), as well as Alpha Centauri. We wonder though how… Read More »
The Value Foundation, https://value-foundation.org/, a foundation associated with Leiden University, the Netherlands, will be streaming Civ3 regularly on Tuesday evenings, 21h CET (3 PM East Coast, Noon Pacific time). They do research on games and history, and have already last year regularly (Tuesday evenings) streamed Civ2, seems this year they’ll be playing Civ3.The announcement is here on Twitter,… Read More »
And it is time again to conquer the world! In this “Game Of The Month” you play as Ghengis Khan of Mongolia on a hot and wet lakes map with abundant resources on Immortal level. You will need to deal with barbarian clans, and you will need to win a domination victory, while preventing all other civs from… Read More »
The latest version of FreeCiv has been released. The current update includes a long list of technical as well as game improvements. Examples are a maximum player number of 500, changes to the bombardment capability based on the unit’s damage, some older rulesets have been eliminated, and way more. You can read the full list of changes here,… Read More »
The official Civilization twitter account has announced that the next Civilization is in development! Discuss these exciting news with us here.
The new Civ6 Leader Pack, Rulers of the Sahara, has been released. This pack includes Sundiata Keita of Mali, Ramses II of Egypt, and another persona for Cleoptra, the ptolemaic Cleopatra (also Egypt). Join us for the discussion of the new leaders and patch notes here.
Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game. This update includes, among other things, a new map script, the bay map script (see image above), added more happiness, a rebalance of family bonuses, and various bug fixes. Discuss this update with us here. Old World is currently available in the Epic… Read More »
Do you maybe still own an old Amiga, and you love 4X? Then we also found the right game for you! Settle The World (news link) is a Colonization-like game for the Amiga, and it just got updated! As Colonization, the game is a turn-based 4X game in which you settle the New World, buy settling towns, building… Read More »